How to win lane as Graves against Yorick · 56.1% win rate over 41 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Graves | Four shells of point-blank buckshot win any level-1 face-off — Yorick is slow, has no dash, and his lone starting ghoul can't trade with you. |
| Level 2 | Graves | Your E comes online and the dash-reload weave starts — auto, E for the Bushwhack armor and the auto-reset, auto — and his ghoul autos are too slow to punish the in-and-out window. |
| Level 3 | Graves | Q's wall-detonation bounce is your real early burst, and you out-stat his ghoul-backed trades before Mourning Mist's mark and slow can pin you for the ghoul collapse. |
| Levels 4-5 | Graves | Your True Grit passive plus Bushwhack armor compound off E charges and make his short trades unprofitable — fight in shell rhythm and reload off the wave; bank the second E charge to dash out of his Dark Procession wall. |
| Level 6 | Graves | Collateral Damage executes Yorick through Maiden's heal and the cone clears the ghouls behind him — one button answers his entire level-6 kill setup before the swarm lands. |
| First item | Graves | Your Eclipse/Youmuu's spike lands first — the point-blank Q-AA-E-AA pattern removes half his bar before his ghouls and Maiden ever fully stack on you. |
| Two+ items | Yorick | Yorick out-scales hard: Maiden + a full four-ghoul swarm + Divine Sunderer sieges a side lane your reloading 4-shell magazine can't out-DPS — don't 1v1 his split, win off your early lead. |
Yorick is slow and you out-DPS him point-blank from level 1 — take every CS trade in melee range where all four pellets land, and Q off the wall behind him for the detonation bounce. The instant you hit 2-3, start the weave: auto, E in for the Bushwhack armor and the auto-reset, auto again, then dash back out before his ghouls catch up. Dodge Mourning Mist (E) — the mark and slow is what lets his ghouls reach you and what sets up his all-in — and keep an E charge ready so Dark Procession's bone wall never traps you on the swarm.
The full Graves vs Yorick report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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